Bowls


This bowl is made from book. Yes I glued each page together, a couple chapters at a time and then put it in a press for a week. I kept do this every week until the whole book was turned into one solid block. The book was a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte.
This piece has two pieces of maple glued to each side of the book. After it was set I then turned out the bowl on my wood lathe.

The bowl is 5 1/2″ in diameter, 2 1/4″ tall and 1 1/2″ deep

This is a bowl I made from a book. A Napoleon Bonaparte biography. This took months to make. I would glue each page together a couple chapters at a time then put it in a press and let it set until the next weekend and glue a two more chapters together.
It is interesting to see the words on the inside and bottom yet the sides look like wood grain.
I will say that you have to have your tools very sharp to cut through the paper and not have it get fuzzy.

The bowl is 5 5/16 inches wide, 2 inches tall and 1 1/4 inches deep.
Here is the book after all the pages were glued together.

This is a hand turned bowl with live edges made from Walnut. 
Cut square with the center turned out lets you see the rings of the tree on the sides and the wonderful pattern the rings make when turned.

This piece is 7 3/4″ long, 4″ wide, 2 3/8″ tall. The bowl has a 4″ diameter and is 1 3/4″ deep. It has a glossy lacquer finish.
This is a hand turned bowl made from Red Oak. Turned while the wood was wet giving it a slight oval shape when it dried.
The coloring on this bowl is a green ink stain then covered with 4 coats of semi gloss lacquer.
I purposely left it a little rough to give it a old farm kitchen bowl feel.

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